I think it suits your substack’s theme of burnout. Since you love to photograph trees, the Dragon Blood’s tree from the UNESCO world heritage site of the Archipelago of Socotra should be on your wish list.
I have never looked at trees through this lens of drawing (probably because I do not draw) but this is so interesting! I notice shadows and things from a photography perspective but is very curious to think of the transitions of learning to draw shapes and how nature could connect to the similarity of drawing hands! This is so exciting! I can’t wait to go into the woods and look at bits with this new eye!
Wonderful! Maybe take a small sketchbook with you on one of your adventures! Look into the canopy and draw the gaps between boughs and branches and leaves (not many this time of year) -- the so-called negative space. Some of the trees that you photograph are not common in my country. I like the one of that you took reaching up to a branch. Those branches are angled downwards I noticed. Not sure if it was its natural weeping habit or compensating for snow. Often looking at the bark on the base of a tree can tell you a story. For example there is a big tree near me which has a hollow and people light fires in it. The tree has compensated by growing much thicker and stronger on the other side and grew a thick trunk out sideways. You can see the effect of a prevailing wind on exposed trees in that they compensate by diverting energy to the part of the trunk that needs to be stronger. According to the theory of the wood wide web, trees also listen to other trees to share the water and nutrition, and if one tree is distressed or sick they will spare more for the sick one. The human hand can also be very brawn when worked, like the mechanic’s “bunch of bananas”, or the the “blacksmith’s arms”, and trees can be the same. The London Plane tree is known for its muscular looking aspect, which develops when branches rub together, creating friction wounds, and then fuse together when they heal, make a single blacksmith’s arm with sinewy strength.
Just had a look at your photo again: it’s your profile photo I was remembering. Looks like a Scot’s Pine. What a mighty tree. I take it (because of the name of your substack) it burnt in a fire, did it?
I am not sure - that tree lives in a different region than I do. I took that photo in Colorado, while on a trip.
I think it suits your substack’s theme of burnout. Since you love to photograph trees, the Dragon Blood’s tree from the UNESCO world heritage site of the Archipelago of Socotra should be on your wish list.
I have never looked at trees through this lens of drawing (probably because I do not draw) but this is so interesting! I notice shadows and things from a photography perspective but is very curious to think of the transitions of learning to draw shapes and how nature could connect to the similarity of drawing hands! This is so exciting! I can’t wait to go into the woods and look at bits with this new eye!
Wonderful! Maybe take a small sketchbook with you on one of your adventures! Look into the canopy and draw the gaps between boughs and branches and leaves (not many this time of year) -- the so-called negative space. Some of the trees that you photograph are not common in my country. I like the one of that you took reaching up to a branch. Those branches are angled downwards I noticed. Not sure if it was its natural weeping habit or compensating for snow. Often looking at the bark on the base of a tree can tell you a story. For example there is a big tree near me which has a hollow and people light fires in it. The tree has compensated by growing much thicker and stronger on the other side and grew a thick trunk out sideways. You can see the effect of a prevailing wind on exposed trees in that they compensate by diverting energy to the part of the trunk that needs to be stronger. According to the theory of the wood wide web, trees also listen to other trees to share the water and nutrition, and if one tree is distressed or sick they will spare more for the sick one. The human hand can also be very brawn when worked, like the mechanic’s “bunch of bananas”, or the the “blacksmith’s arms”, and trees can be the same. The London Plane tree is known for its muscular looking aspect, which develops when branches rub together, creating friction wounds, and then fuse together when they heal, make a single blacksmith’s arm with sinewy strength.
Just had a look at your photo again: it’s your profile photo I was remembering. Looks like a Scot’s Pine. What a mighty tree. I take it (because of the name of your substack) it burnt in a fire, did it?